Around 100 students from the Trisakti University demonstrated at the Indonesian parliament (DPR) on Tuesday demanding that the DPR for a special council to solve the shooting of four Trisakti students on May 12, 1998.

The students also called on the DPR to question figures who are suspected to be involved in the riots in Jakarta on May 12, 1998, such as former armed forces chief Wiranto, former police Chief Dibyo Widodo, former Jakarta police chief Hamami Nata and former police chief Arthur Damanik.

According to Trisakti student president, Radja Mangapul Tobing, they met with parliamentary speaker Akbar Tanjung and six fractions of the DPR last April. At that time, the DPR promised to form a council.

Ferry Tinggogoy from the military/police fraction who met with the protesters announced that the student's demands would be discussed at the earliest buy the House Consultative Body on August 3.

[Abridged translation by James Balowski]